Learning more about our favorite actors, singers and famous people is always interesting, somehow, the more we know about them ,the more connected we feel to them and we can almost establish a connection with their lives.
In today’s text, we are going to talk about a famous Nigerian actress, who recently got an opportunity to show the world her talent in some of the major US shows and movies.
Genevieve Nnaji is a beautiful, talented actress from Nigeria, and today we will talk about her biography, net worth and career path.
So, if you are interested to find out more about her, keep on reading.
Early Years
Genevieve Nnaji was born on May 3rd 1979 in Mbaise in Nigeria. She is a famous Nigerian actress and one of the highest paid actresses in Nigeria so far. Gen spent her childhood in Lagos, which is one of the largest cities in Nigeria and its economic capital.
Her family was considered a middle class family and she had a total of eight brothers and sisters. Her father worked as an engineer and her mother was a school teacher.
Growing up, school was always important to her and she managed to get a degree from the Methodist Girl University. It was only after graduating, that she decided she was ready to start her movie career, so she began going to auditions more frequently.
Nnaji began his soap opera career Ripples at the age of 8, turning in commercials for Pronto, a beverage brand, and OMO laundry. In 2004, she became the face of Lux soap in a very lucrative sponsorship deal.
At the age of 19, she joined the growing middle of Nigerian cinema by filming her first film, Most Wanted.
She later toured in Last Party, Mark of the Beast and Ijele. She has appeared in more than 80 Nollywood films and is one of Nollywood’s best-paid actresses.
Career Path
Gen’s career started very early, when she was only eight years old. She acted in commercials and this made her known to the producers and big shot movie companies.
Nnaji received several awards in her career, including a nomination for best actress of the year 2001 at the “City People Awards”, and the distinction of best actress in 2005 at the Africa Movie Academy Awards (AMAA).
In 2008, Nnaji launched its haute couture brand, St. Genevieve, while announcing a portion of the profits to charity. In 2010, she turns in Mirror Boy of Obi Emelonye. She directed Lionheart, a movie so the rights were bought by the American giant Netflix streaming. Lionheart becomes the first Nigerian movie that Netflix has acquired worldwide rights, making it a Netflix Original movie.
She plays the main character: Adaeze. A brilliant young businesswoman who is seconding her father in the management of the Lionheart Transport family business.
She has already proven on several occasions her ability to generate profit and manage difficult situations, but when the latter falls seriously ill, he entrusts the reins of the company to his uncle.
This will not be easy because in addition to coping with a new boss bulky and exceeded responsibilities, it will have to find a solution to pay the debts of the family business in 30 days so as not to put the key under the door. The film was presented on September 7, 2018 at TIFF (Toronto International Film Festival).
Some of her biggest movies are Road to Yesterday, Marvel’s Avengers: Infinity War, Lionheart and many more. Seems like Genevieve is not stopping yet, and we will be seeing her face more often on big screens not only in Nigeria but also in America.
Her net worth is estimated at around 7.5$ million which is a significant amount. She recently bought a mansion in Ghana for 4$ million and we will definitely see her net worth going up in the following years.
Personal life
What’s important to know about Gen is that she is a woman of character, although she is a pleasant smile and a perfect body which would make her look like an angel or an easy woman, she is not at all. A woman who is only the way of her heart, when she has a thought she follows him without thinking of the consequences that can run from it.
More it is a woman who has never let down by a man, the proof well that marriée she always followed his way. But behind this hides also a woman full of love, who believes in everything and of character very feeling, when she lives a story of love, she puts herself completely there maybe for this reason, when everything flows, it suffers.
A few months later, the actress seems to have a smile at the lips after a huge and tumultuous battle with her ex-husband. All press people wonder is it because she received the awards of the best African actress, or THE BEST NEW-COMER in the USA, or it has been published in the magazine VANITY-FAIR. And well beyond all this, as they say love gives the pain and well that’s true.
The actress was spinning recently perfect love with an actor who is also evolving, in the quality of the charming DESMOND ELLIOT. The couple even think about the marriage, and the actor moves to the actress.
The two actors are getting married and the marriage is expected, but once the actress with other projects. The actress who is known for its hard character, thinks well to return to the altar but no child now, but the actor wants a child with her in the immediate, which creates a problem.
The brother of the actress testifies even to the press: the two love each other very much, gen is ready to do a lot to make everything work, but everything also seems to go into her career that she is not ready to destroy everything now, a child needs a lot of attention for her.
For a first time, the actress demmenage and returns to live in his villa, but sometime after they renew one more. After everything does not seem as well go, the actor is more pleased with the situation that is happening, he would like the actress to take care of more of her family, which she does not seem to want. The actor wants to have another child, but the actress does not think about it at all.
Her career seems to be going from her front, she finds herself for the first time at the Ran Hollywood or she turns next to ROBERT DE NIRO, once again with WILL SMITH where she interprets the role of the bar singer in the film WILD WILD WEST.
The problems do not seem to stop any more and by mutual agreement the two decide to divorce in all friendship. We would have thought it well, since the actor has accepted to yield the family villa and to pay the alimony, but the The two of them love their son, none wants to give custody to the other, thus a war that will last 1 and 3 months between the two actors.
Finally the actress will get the guard. The couple in public and in private appear more in love than ever and continues to prove it.
It is enough that the one trip one finds the other one who am the other always not company of their son. The couple had thus adopted this method In order to keep their couple safe and always strong, to leave always together.
Even in the movies the two did not stop loving each other. Several journalists publish: in Africa and especially in Nigeria they represented a little Hollywood, this couple glamorous, beautiful who holds in the hand and kissing in public and without counting the follies that they are made.
Quick summary
Full name: Genevieve Nnaji
Date of birth: May 3rd 1979
Birthplace: Nigeria
Age: 40
Profession: Actress
Height: 1.60 m
Weight: 52 kg
Net Worth: 7.5 $ million
